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Begin with another's to end with your own.
Topic: Creativity
Maxims are like lawyers who must need to see but one side of the case.
Topic: Maxim
Now let us sing, long live the king.
Topic: Royalty
Nursing her wrath to keep it warm.
Topic: Anger
Author: Robert Burns
When man learns to understand and control his own behavior as well as he is learning to understand and control the behavior of crop plants and domestic animals, he may be justified in believing that he has become civilized.
Topic: Behavior
Author: E G Stakman
Thank God for competition. When our competitors upset our plans or outdo our designs, they open infinite possibilities of our own work to us.
Topic: Sports
Author: Gil Atkinson
Commit a sin twice and it will not seem a crime.
Topic: Sin
"Appetite comes with eating," says Angeston, "but thirst departs with drinking."
Topic: Appetite
It is the job of poetry to clean up our word-clogged reality by creating silences around things.
Topic: Poetry
It takes vision and courage to create--it takes faith and courage to prove.
Topic: Courage
Author: Owen D Young
A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin.
Topic: Cynic
Author: H L Mencken
'T is beauty truly blent, whose red and white Nature's own sweet and cunning hand laid on: Lady, you are the cruell'st she alive If you will lead these graces to the grave And leave the world no copy. -Twelfth Night. Act i. Sc. 5.
Get me inside any boardroom and I'll get any decision I want.
Author: Alan Bond
He that never changes his opinions, never corrects his mistakes, and will never be wiser on the morrow than he is today.
Topic: Opinion
The moment you cheat for the sake of beauty, you know you're an artist.
Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
Topic: Society
More are taken in by hope than by cunning.
Topic: Cunning
Just praise is only a debt, but flattery is a present.
Topic: Flattery
One man with courage makes a majority.
Topic: Courage
Anger begins with folly, and ends with repentance.
Topic: Negativity
Author: H G Bohn